It is amazing how readers seem to waste their time ‘taking on’ minister Nazri Abdul Aziz for what are simply comments, like that on a long-playing cracked disc that has long been discarded. Their response is 'full of sound and fury’ but signifying nothing.

The same scenario of a politically connected Malay-bumiputera elite groups continuing to manipulate the decision making process of scholarship allocation in favour of their children and then to ‘muddy the waters’ continues to manifest itself throughout the system to the detriment of all other groups. Alas, accordingly, their foul deeds will not rise because they will be covered from men's eyes.

One example can be cited.

A USM visiting professor research project undertaken in 2002-3 revealed that not only almost the entire first year intake of admissions (from the matriculation program) were awarded full scholarships, but also that their fathers were mostly nominated directors from the corporate sector.

Not surprisingly a few students ticked the slot ‘unemployed’ for them! This is obviously a limited study but was based on a random stratified sample.

As pointed out in the comments, among those who seem to have much to decry are people who themselves played pro-establishment roles in this system, and it seems a far cry now to cry over such wrongs.